Hanger for supporting bed-bottoms.



No. 699,392.: Patented May 6, l902..

' F. KARE.

HANGER FOR SUPPORTING BED BUTTONS.

(Application filed Jan. 28, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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UNTTED STATES PATENT OEEiCE.

FRANCIS KARE, OF HOLLAND, MICHIGAN.

HANGER FOR SUPPORTING BED-BOTTOMS.

SPECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 699,392, dated May 6, 1902. Application filed January 28, 1901. Serial No. 45,122; (No model.)

To all whom it may cancer-72 Be it known that I, FRANCIS KARR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Holland, in the county of Ottawa and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hangers for Supporting Bed- Bottoms, of which the following is a specifi cation.

My invention relates to improvements in hangers for supporting spring bed-bottoms; and its object is to provide a hanger for spring bed-bottoms having angle-iron rails of such a form that a spring-frame maybe adjusted to bedsteads of various widths to meet the variations in widths made by different manufacturers for a given standard width. I attain this object by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective of one corner of an angle-iron spring-frame. Fig. 2 shows the application of my hanger as connecting an angle-iron spring-frame to an angle-iron bedrail and indicating that the spring-frame is of a proper size to closely fit between the bedrails. Fig. 3 is a perspective of an angle-iron spring-frame rail, showing a notch to provide for allowing the end of the hanger passing in to allow of the necessary variation of width of the several makes of bedstead, as hereinbefore indicated. Fig. 4 is an end view of a section of a bed-rail and a spring-frame rail with the variation of the width of the bedframe indicated in dotted lines. Fig. 5 is a perspective of a spring-frame rail and hanger, showing a slot in the end of the hanger for the reception of a bolt; and Fig. 6 shows the hanger applied to a bed-rail having the thin edge up.

Similarletters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents the side rail of my spring-frame.

B represents the tie-rails, that tie the ends of the side rails together. i

C represents a bed-rail, of angle-iron, with the angle at the upper edge of the rail, and 0 represents the same with the angle at the lower edge of the'rail.

D represents the hanger, which when designed for use upon rails having the angle at the upper edge of the rail, as in Figs. 2 and 4, has a long right-angle arm D at the upper end fitted to lie upon the top of the bed-rail and is provided with a short hook c, that hooks over the side of the bed-rail and prevents the hanger from becoming displaced or slipping off of the rail, and at the other end it is formed at a right angle in the opposite direction and fitted with a hook D, that fits closely over the frame-rail A to avert the danger of this end of the hanger being forced down by the pressure upon the springs. When the rail A is left full its entire length, it is necessary to make the lower angle of the hanger considerably longer than the width of this wing of the rail, as indicated in Figs. 2 and 4 of the drawings, so that its position may be varied to meet the variations in the widths of the same bedstead as manufaotured by different man ufacturers, as indicated in said Figs. 2 and 4, and particularly in dotted lines in Fig. 4; but I find it easy, though a little more expensive, to avoid the unsightliness of this projecting end on the narrower bedsteads by cutting a notch, as (6, in the lower arm of the rail, so that the end of the hanger may be made to just pass over the arm of the rail, as indicated in Fig. 5, and when desiring to use it on a wider bedstead of the same general width the end of the hanger may pass into the notch and carry the body D of the hanger away from the rail, exactly as shown in Fig. 4. I find that it gives much better satisfaction to secure the hookD with a bolt, as E, and for this purpose I form an aperture a through the rail and a slot (1" in the end of the hook, so that the bolt may be inserted and will allow of the necessary adjustment.

WVhen applying this hanger to a bedstead having the angle of the bed-rail at the lower edge, as in Fig. 6, it is necessary to form a small hook d at the top of the hanger D and a double angle (1 in the body to lie upon the surface of the lower arm of the rail, the hook D" engaginglthe edge of the frame-rail, as in the other form of hangers, as shown in Fig. 6.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. In combination with a bed-bottom having angle-iron frames and a bedstead having angle-iron rails, a hanger the body of which is bent at opposite right angles, the upperangle-arm having a retaining-lip at the end and the lower angle-arm bent upward and then back over and parallel with the arm and forming a receptacle for the web of the rail of the bed-bottom, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In combination with abedstead and bedbottom, each having side rails formed of angle-irons, a hanger the body of which is bent at opposite right angles, the upper angled arm projecting over the bed-rail and having a retaining-lip at the end, and the lower angled arm projecting. under the bed-bottom rail and bent upward andth'en back parallel with the arm and forming a receptacle for the Web of the railof the bottom, and a bolt passing through said rail and arm, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

Signed at Grand Rapids, Michigan, January 14, 1901.

- FRANCIS KARE. In presence of ITHIEL J. CILLEY, A. L. CRAWFORD. 

